Pubdate: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 Source: Topeka Capital-Journal (KS) Copyright: 2012 Stan White Contact: http://cjonline.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/455 Author: Stan White Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n083/a06.html MEDICAL CANNABIS Due to numerous scientific studies from around the world, the AIDS Action Council, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Nurses Association, the American Preventive Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, the California Academy of Family Physicians, the California Medical Association, the California Pharmacists Association, Cure AIDS Now, the Florida Medical Association, the Los Angeles County AIDS Commission, the Lymphoma Foundation of America and too many more to list have endorsed medical cannabis (marijuana). Beyond science is the fact that in more than 5,000 years of documented use, there is not one single dead body to show cannabis has ever killed anyone. There also is another way of looking at it. There was never any scientific reason to prohibit the plant to begin with. If cannabis use was legal today, there would be no scientific reason to prohibit it. Scientifically, biblically and morally, caging sick humans for using the God-given plant is wrong. STAN WHITE, Dillon, Colo. - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D